Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.
Tag: books self-reliance independence
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
Marcus AureliusTag: individuality self-esteem solitude ataraxy self self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness self-trust self-sufficiency self-containment retire
The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.
Ernst JüngerTag: self-reliance ernst-jünger anarch
Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.
Amanda BoydenTag: self-reliance
I'd rather die my way than live yours.
Lauren OliverTag: self-determination self-reliance independence lena-holoway
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: self-reliance provocation
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusTag: self-reliance folly
Here must thou be, O man,
Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —
Here keepest thou thy individual state:
No other can divide with thee this work,
No secondary hand can intervene
To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine,
The prime and vital principle is thine
In the recesses of thy nature, far
From any reach of outward fellowship,
Else 'tis not thine at all.
Tag: solitude self-reliance
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
Louis SimpsonTag: liberty freedom liberalism capitalism satire individualism self-reliance frontier romanticism restlessness walt-whitman american-exceptionalism rootlessness
We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak.
Pandora PoikilosTag: self-help self-reliance independence caring comfort-zone
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